Q: A good friend of our family is on the kidney transplant list and is having hemodialysis. Can you please explain what that entails? My wife and I want to help, but we don’t want to bother him with a ...

Hemodialysis (HD) is a life-saving treatment for more than 1,700,000 patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage V. Every year the HD population becomes increasingly older (average age: 75 years) ...

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Hemodialysis was found to be a poor prognostic factor for patients with RCC. The source of the chemicals is from the silicone tubing used as a part of the hydraulics in the machine and the dialysate ...

When Karen Everts wants to go camping, kidney failure no longer slows her down: She simply rolls the first portable hemodialysis machine out of her kitchen and into her motor home, ready to hook up ...

When an ice storm hit Texas, shutting down the water supply that so many dialysis patients depend on to live, many patients who perform hemodialysis at home never missed a treatment. As a mom of three ...

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The University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital is introducing new dialysis technology to treat infants with kidney failure. The Cardio-Renal Pediatric Dialysis Emergency Machine, called ...

Dear Doctors: A good friend of our family is on the kidney transplant list and is having hemodialysis. Can you please explain what that entails? My wife and I want to help, but we don’t want to bother ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is evaluating certain Fresenius Medical Care hemodialysis machines as they may potentially expose patients to polychlorinated hydrocarbon chemicals, specifically ...